Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consistent policy. The day before Paul McNutt asked for a national manpower law, Secretary of Labor Perkins, attending a Plumbers & Steam Fitters meeting in Cleveland, told reporters sharply: "I disagree that it is inevitable that Congress must enact legislation which will enable the War Manpower Commission to regulate the movement and assignment of workers in war industry...
From fragments such as these the world learned of one of the great battles in history. "Not a single battle in past wars has shown such a picture of continuous movement and maneuver on both sides," said the army newspaper Red Star. "The enemy is forever regrouping for flank attacks or attempts at encirclement while our forces are also continuously maneuvering and counterattacking the enemy's flanks and rear...
...carrier-based naval squadron of dive-bombers and torpedo planes smashed a Jap fleet movement of one carrier flanked by cruisers and destroyers. Torpedo-plane Pilot Lieut. Bruce Harwood of Claremont, Calif., flew within 800 yards of the carrier (presumably the 7,100-ton Ryuzyo) before releasing a "pickle" that sent a giant plume of flame from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned...
Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
Commented the Congress' General Secretary, sharp-brained, smooth-mannered Sir Walter Citrine: "The war is being made an excuse for the Government's failure to deal with this reform. National unity does not mean that the trade-union movement should be gagged. . . . Labor's loyalty has been badly strained...